Pandemics Depress the Economy; Public Healt … Posted on March 27, 2020 by mikee Pandemics Depress the Economy; Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3561560 … HT @KClausing “[C]ities that intervened earlier and more aggressively do not perform worse and, if anything, grow faster after the pandemic is over.”